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PICTURED: Ivy league corporate attorney arrested along with a fellow lawyer for 'throwing a Molotov cocktail at empty NYPD van' during violent George Floyd protests in Brooklyn
Daily Mail UK ^ | May 31, 2020 | Marlene Lenthang

Posted on 05/31/2020 4:01:08 PM PDT by Morgana

wo Brooklyn lawyers have been charged for allegedly tossing a Molotov cocktail into a New York Police Department vehicle early Saturday morning during a protest decrying the police killing of George Floyd.

Colinford Mattis, 32, a corporate attorney with Pryor Cashman, and attorney Urooj Rahman, 31, were charged with the attack where they threw the bomb into an empty police cruiser that was parked outside the 88th Precinct station house in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, cops say.

Police say Rahman, a registered attorney in New York, tossed a bottle filled with gasoline through a broken window into the cruiser just before 1am but the Molotov cocktail failed to ignite.

Rahman then jumped into a van that Mattis was driving and together they sped away from the scene according to the New York Daily News.

The bomb attempt was caught on video surveillance cameras outside the precinct located on DeKalb Avenue.

Police chased and stopped the duo’s van on Willoughby Street and found the makings of another Molotov cocktail in the backseat and a gasoline container.

Both Rahman and Mattis were arrested and charged with attempting to damage or destroy law-enforcement vehicles. Neither had been arrested before.

They face a mandatory minimum sentence of five years and a maximum of 20 years in jail.

They face federal charges and will be arraigned Monday.

'No rational human being can ever believe that hurling firebombs at police officers and vehicles is justified,' Brooklyn US Attorney Richard Donaghue said.

Mattis lives in East New York and graduated from Princeton University and New York University law school in 2016, according to his Linkedin page.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: andrewcuomo; billdeblasio; brooklyn; civilunrest; colinfordmattis; domesticterrorism; newyork; newyorkcity; nyc; pryorcashman; riots; uroojrahman
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To: PGR88
The country will either be “fundamentally changed” (as Obama said), or these people will have to be eliminated.


Let's keep the country.
21 posted on 05/31/2020 4:21:06 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( Stop the fearmongering! Post flu statistics along side COVID-19 statistics!)
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To: snarkytart

Especially the educated, other than STEM.


22 posted on 05/31/2020 4:21:16 PM PDT by SandwicheGuy (*The butter acts as a lubricant and speeds up the CPU)
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To: snarkytart

“even the educated”

Often not a virtue, look at Media / Journalist often with Ivy league backgrounds. Hornets nest of scumbag leftism.


23 posted on 05/31/2020 4:24:00 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: Morgana
And again the foreign press is reporting the real news the American media won't- because they don't want you to know it.
24 posted on 05/31/2020 4:24:41 PM PDT by Vision (Obama corrupted, sought to weaken and fundamentally change America; he didn't plan on being stopped.)
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To: Morgana

I’m telling you guys, there are a fair number of affluenza cases among the rioters.


25 posted on 05/31/2020 4:27:11 PM PDT by BlackAdderess
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To: Morgana

Terrorism and attempted murder, plain and simple. 25 years to life, minimum.


26 posted on 05/31/2020 4:29:17 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: Morgana

I bet those two aren’t fired.


27 posted on 05/31/2020 4:35:17 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: Husker24

Im pretty sure it will be disbarment - hard to get around that.


28 posted on 05/31/2020 4:35:44 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: snarkytart

What do you think they’re educated in? These are liberal arts/ hate America first majors.


29 posted on 05/31/2020 4:45:55 PM PDT by Varda
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To: Morgana

Nothing will happen to them nor will they be disbarred.


30 posted on 05/31/2020 4:46:07 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: Morgana

Nothing will happen to them nor will they be disbarred.


31 posted on 05/31/2020 4:46:11 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: Morgana

Amy Cooper lost her job and reputation for calling 911 on a black guy that threatened her and her dog. These 2 will lose nothing and may even be celebrated.


32 posted on 05/31/2020 4:49:01 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Bringing deadly viruses out of caves and into labs doesn't prevent pandemics, it causes them.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

In Texas it would be attempted capital murder of a peace officer. 30 to life.


33 posted on 05/31/2020 4:50:48 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: webheart

Rahman obviously wasn’t using his noodle.


34 posted on 05/31/2020 4:56:08 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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To: snarkytart
even the educated

Affirmative action, not educated.

35 posted on 05/31/2020 4:57:55 PM PDT by KevinB (Quite literally, whatever the Left touches it ruins.)
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To: Husker24
They should lose their law liscense, but they won’t.

Yes they will.

36 posted on 05/31/2020 4:58:26 PM PDT by KevinB (Quite literally, whatever the Left touches it ruins.)
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To: Fred Hayek

I was being kind. If caught in the act, they should be shot on sight. Domestic terrorism alone should get the death penalty.


37 posted on 05/31/2020 5:05:32 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Oh okay... I get it now.

Dude not thinkin’ right...


38 posted on 05/31/2020 5:08:31 PM PDT by OKSooner (Don't buy from China. Don't buy from Microsoft. Don't do Facebook. Tweet only enough to get banned.)
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To: Morgana

Accomplished lawyer or not, Princeton graduate or not...
doesn’t matter.

THEY ARE TERRORISTS, WHO HAVE FOUND A HOME IN THE CULTURE OF THE LEFT. PERIOD


39 posted on 05/31/2020 5:18:37 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: BradyLS

“Lawyers engaged in rioting? Throw the book at ‘em and disbar ‘em.”

Likely a couple of those who would never have passed the bar had it not been lowered over the years.


40 posted on 05/31/2020 5:20:05 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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